Example sentences of "was [adv] do [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the court takes the view that the meeting was not a reasonable step in the action but was merely done for the client 's benefit , then the costs will be disallowed as against the defendants . |
| 2 | It was all to do with the silence , and the wine stain — turning now from red to black as it spread and seeped . |
| 3 | The inquest had heard that changes to the hot water system at the home where the boy died had been ordered five years ago , but that the work was only done AFTER the boy 's death . |
| 4 | This was largely done by the process of ‘ enclosure ’ , the breaking-down of the medieval strip-farming system and its replacement by relatively compact holdings of almost rectangular fields ; it was not so much dependent on new farming techniques as on the more intensive use of ploughland and labour . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 6 | Hit-the was usually done in the Co-op hall , and er they were good . |
| 7 | They felt it was more to do with the wickedness of the world . |
| 8 | He engaged them with zest , stretching and testing them like a martial artist , to catalyse their own divine spark — just as he was later to do as the teacher , John Keating , in Dead Poets Society . |
| 9 | An analysis was also done of the outcome of validation for the private centres . |
| 10 | I suppose this was partly to do with the heat — it is very hot here at present — but to tell you the truth I do n't remember very much about it . |
| 11 | ‘ There was plenty doing in the smithy when it was only horses on the farms . |
| 12 | But Spurs , who have just introduced a strict new code of conduct , feel their new skipper was hard done in the flashpoint with Palace centre-back Andy Thorn . |
| 13 | In a brief discussion of the use of tense in English and Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 ) points out that some verbs refer to what is stated in the academic paper itself ( these he calls indicative verbs ) , while other verbs refer to what was actually done in the research on which the paper reports ( these he calls informative verbs ) . |